ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,971, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sud Scrub Inc. (San Gabriel, Calif.).

"Scrubber device and cleansing system" was invented by Raymond Truong (Las Vegas) and Steven Truong (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a central body having an array of scrubbing features that extend away from a first surface of the central body. The array of scrubbing features is arranged in wave-shaped pathways extending radially from a first end of the pathways at an interior of the central body toward a second end of the pathways at a periphery of the central body. The array of scrubbing features includes a first set of scrubbing ...